Has anyone?

I am curious has anyone used Halcion for conscious sedation?  I have a procedure coming up in the next couple of weeks and that is what they will be using. I have never used this drug and know that it used to be used a lot for sleep. Does it work and will I know anything? I really don't want to know anything that is going on. When I went yesterday to see what had to be done I got so upset that my B/P was in the danger zone. So as you see I need something that will not let me know what is happening.

Im sorry i cant help you with this but just wanted you to know you are in my thoughts and prayers.  I wouldnt want to know what is going on either.  Put me out.

Hi Louise,
I dont know anything about this ..I dont blame you, PUT ME OUT ..I do NOT want to care. You are in my prayers that all goes smooth with you procedure and you have a quick recovery. When is your surgery date?

I see where it is sometimes used before dental procedures to provide calming effects BEFORE sedation but I have not seen where it is used primarily to sedate.  Give me versed and demerol and put my lights out

I believe that this is what they gave John before his discogram on his back to calm him.  It did make him sleep on and off.  What are you having done, Louise?  Please let me know when.  Is it in anniston?

I am with you Louise, just knock me out and let me not remember the pain, etc.  I had the weirdest dreams after my gall bladder surgery.  I think they didn't really get me far enough under.  I "dreamed" that a man in a green surgical scrubs came at me with a scapel.  He was talking to another person that I couldn't see.  I didn't know the man.   Later at my follow up business, the man in my "dream" was my surgeon.

I think I wasn't dreaming.  I think I wasn't as far under as they thought when he started the surgery.  I didn't feel any pain, but I have had surgery before where the doctor asked the nurse if I was under, and I answered that I was cold from the neck down but I could still talk.  He laughed and asked if I could feel that.  I said no, and he said, "Well, shut your eyes."  And that was the last thing I remembered.   He laughed and told me that I really startled the nurse when I answered the question about being under.  He asked me if I knew I talked to him in the operating room.  I told him yes, but I was going under when I did it.  It was the talk of the hospital for days.

I think the same thing happened when I had gall bladder surgery.  I maybe should tell them that it takes a while for me to go under.  I have also discovered that the Tylenol with "Sleep Aid" keeps me awake.  Weird.  I have always been hard to put under and some of that stuff has an opposite effect.

One more weird story about anthesia and me.  When I had my second surgery on my knee replacement, I woke up too soon on the way to the recovery room.  I asked the nurse if I could sit up and apologized because I couldn't keep still.  I told her my leg was hurting and I couldn't quit moving.  She laughed at me and told me to sit up, but i would stop moving in a second when she got the morphene in the IV.  Then she came back and asked me if I knew what I said to her.  I told her yes.  I was trying to be a good patient, but I just couldn't keep my feet still and I wanted to sit up.  She said, I thought you were coming out of it too fast, and she cautioned me that I shouldn't get up because I wouldn't be able to walk.  When they came from surgery to check on me, I was sitting up on the gurney talking to the nurse, telling her my legs were still cold.  They all stood there and said that I wasn't supposed to be sitting up and talking. I should still be out cold.  I am apparently hard to put under for some reason and then it is hard for me to stay under.

Louise ,I had a prodedure recently ( surgery) and they did a local and stuff to make me drowsy....WAS NOT something iwill do again as I was very groggy and the local didnt work well ,..I felt quite a bit ,,,I tell you this ONLY because of how you said the thoughts of it affect you and dont want you to get in there and it be to late to do anything about it like i was,
On the other hand you might be fine.. If you BP raises that much I think I would discuss another sedation ..
Shirley